towerofanimus | First Memory ☄ Open

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First Memory ☄ Open

Characters: Yuuto, and whoever wants to come bother the new arrival.
Setting: Starting in room 2-02, and then to the hallways.
Format: Either. I'm starting off with prose.
Summary: Yuuto goes exploring because like hell he's going to stay here.
Warnings: None. For now.

Voluntarily ending up in somewhere unfamiliar was pretty common for Yuuto. He had the means to travel anywhere-- and to any time. On the other hand, waking up somewhere unfamiliar with no recollection of how he ended up there was not. One thought ran through his mind-- had he finally used one too many Zeronos cards?

Regardless, here he was, on a bed, in a room, and right now he was reading one of the letters he received. His eyes widened at reading that his world had been destroyed, and he chose not to read any further. Instead he crumpled up the paper and threw it on the ground, and walked to the chest at the foot of his bed with a frown, hoping that it contained something useful.

Luckily, it did.

A quick change of clothes later, Yuuto was ready to head out and get answers... or to possibly force his way out. Whichever came first.

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Hm?

That was odd.

Deneb could swear he felt a twinge of something, something he hadn't felt in weeks. Something that merited investigation. So to start, a hesitant mental question.

"Yuuto? Is that you?"

Yuuto walked down the hallways, arms folded across his chest, and a stoic look upon his face. Although when he heard the all-too-familiar voice inside his head, he stopped in his tracks.

D-Deneb? You're here too?

There was a touch of relief in his voice.

Deneb, in the meantime began to fret in a different hall - he wasn't sure what to think. He's relieved that Yuuto is okay, but to wind up here...

I am. I've been here for a couple of weeks at least.

There's a pause.

What's the last thing you were doing before you came here?

"Hi!" Minami says as she passes him in the hall. Staying still in the Tower made her uneasy so she tended to do rounds through every floor to get to know the lay of the place. It was down the hall from his room she'd run into him and, well, she liked to talk to people.

Her world may or may not be gone, but it can't hurt to get to know people and make new friends.... right?

"I was... with Airi-san."

He mumbles that out loud, and under his breath. That was the last thing he remembered before waking up here. It was somewhat of a fond memory, but now it was just that. A memory.

He shakes it off.

"How were you here for a few weeks? You were with me."

He's confused now.

Yuuto stops for a moment when he hears her say something and just... looks at her. Maybe even raises an eyebrow.

He's really not the friendly sort, so he gets straight to the point.

"How do I get out of here?"

Okay, she ran into a newbie. Figures. Minami has always hated being the bearer of bad news, but seeing as she was the one to say hi first? She'll have to tell him.

"Ummm...." she scratches the back of her head awkwardly, "You kind of can't? At least, no one's found a way out yet, but they're looking!"

That's not what he needs or wants to hear. Her answer worries Yuuto a bit. If there was any truth to his world being destroyed, he had to see it for himself. The only way to do that was to get out of here, and back to the ZeroLiner.

"And how long have they been looking for one?"

He didn't like the idea of being trapped.

"A while, I think? I've only been here a couple weeks myself and already the people running this place aren't giving anyone straight answers. It's impossible to tell if the letters we got are even telling the truth, to be honest."

All the worlds she'd seen represented couldn't be gone. They just couldn't! Even if Minami feared in her heart of hearts her own was gone--she had an inadvertent hand in it, after all--it didn't mean all these worlds were gone!

"The Tower itself is pretty dangerous, too. There's a lot of floors that just don't make any sense and creatures running around who are.... well, you shouldn't stray from the staircases too much if you don't know how to defend yourself."

Yuuto hopes that the letter is a terrible joke. He looks at the girl, and doubts that there is any reason for her to lie to him, although his expression never changes. This is a building. There has to be an exit somewhere.

He listens to her as she continues to speak. When she mentions that there are creatures running about, he can't help but let out a bitter chuckle. Of course there were creatures running around. His mind flashes to the Zeronos cards that are in his pocket at the moment. Ten of them, for however long he would be here.

"Don't worry about me, I can defend myself," he says to her, folding his arms across his chest. "What kind of place is this? You're making it sound like it isn't safe."

Hmm. That was vague - as far as Deneb knows, that could have been any of several points in time.

"I don't know - the last I recall, I was on the DenLiner, and we were going to fix the problems the Oni are causing... I don't know how aware you'd be of that, though, you disappeared before we took off." The latter sentence is stated with some obvious sadness.

Yuuto wasn't going to elaborate on that. Airi wasn't a subject he felt all that comfortable speaking openly about. Everything about her... and him... was just it was a mess that really did need sorting out, regardless of any feelings either of them may have about each other.

And it certainly wasn't going to be something he was going to dwell on at the moment. Getting out of here was his priority.

"The Oni?" he asks, a bit incredulously, too. He dwells on the thought for a moment, remembering that ordeal from when he was a boy. It had been the first time he met Deneb... and Toki. For a split second, the memory itself brings the smallest of smiles to his face... but it doesn't last very long.

Yuuto tries to completely recall the incident. Time had been screwed with (again), and it had caused him to disappear... And then a light bulb went off in Yuuto's head.

Deneb didn't know yet.

"Did you meet a little boy yet, by any chance?"

Worry not, Yuuto - despite Deneb's own concerns about yourself and Airi, he knows not to press the issue.

Usually.

"Ah, yes!" Deneb's walking now, going to find Yuuto. "Yuu-kun - he'd just talked his way into riding along with us despite Owner's warnings."

"That so?" Yuuto is grinning now. He wonders for a minute, if he should just tell Deneb. For the moment, though, he decides against it. "Sometimes, the Owner's right."

Not that Yuuto would take that adventure back, but if the rest of them had known who that little boy was, everything would have gotten more complicated. Deneb probably wouldn't have made the contract with him, let alone actually let him come along.

"Sounds like the kid was a good talker, for the Owner to let him on the DenLiner, though."

"Mmhmm." Yuuto can't see it, but Deneb's giving a nod.

"He had a lot of enthusiasm! From what I've heard, he seems to have a soft spot for such things." A pause. "The good types of enthusiasm, that is."

"His name, the boy, what was it?"

Now he was just kind of stringing Deneb along, waiting to see how many hints he could drop before the Imagin would catch on. Yuuto also stops walking around aimlessly, waiting for his friend to appear down either side of the hallway.

"It was Yuu-kun, though I don't know his last name--" And Deneb pauses at the end of one hallway before barreling down it as fast as his legs can carry him so he can latch onto the man at the end of the hallway.

"YUUUUUUUTOOOOOOO!"

As soon as Deneb interrupts himself, Yuuto looks up just in time to see the Imagin making a beeline for him. He's wide-eyed for a minute, just watching, but then somehow prepares himself for the inevitable Deneb-clinging.

"D-Deneb! Wait!"

Too late.

Hope you've got decent balance still, Yuuto, as Deneb has absolutely zero intention of letting go anytime soon.

"You're acting like you haven't seen me in a while," he says as he's currently being hugged to death.

But now he's trying to push you away so he can get some answers.

"Is it true? What the letter said. Is our world... our time... is it really gone?"

"...well, I've been here for a couple of weeks. And then before I got here, there was the time during the Oni incident, so it has been a while." He'll let up now - he probably shouldn't overwhelm Yuuto.

His head hangs, and he shakes it. "I don't know - Much as I've tried, I can't get back to the ZeroLiner or the DenLiner. All we have to go on is their word, but I don't know how much I trust it."

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First Memory ☄ Open

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I HAS INTERNET AGAIN! \o/

Huzzah!

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